The Islanders drafted Matthew Schaefer (1st), Victor Eklund (16th) and Kashawn Aitcheson (17th) in the first round of the 2025 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n
The last time the Islanders held the 13th pick was in 1987 when they selected Dean Chynoweth. The Islanders also selected Derek King 13th overall in 1985.<\/p>\n
The Islanders do not have a second or third-round pick in this year\u2019s draft. The Islanders second-round pick was dealt to Chicago with Josh Bailey in 2023, while the third-round pick was dealt to the New York Rangers in exchange for defenseman Carson Soucy this past season.<\/p>\n
Check out the NHL Draft Hub for all-access to content leading up to the 2026 NHL Draft. Follow live updates on social media and the Isles + UBS Arena App on draft night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Islanders drafted Matthew Schaefer (1st), Victor Eklund (16th) and Kashawn Aitcheson (17th) in the first round of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-725968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}